31973R2944

No L 302/ 4 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 10 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2944/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the COMMUNITIES, arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European relation to the Community currencies referred to Economic Community ; in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ Whereas it follows from applying the provisions 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2076/73 to the tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ offer prices and today's quotations known to the lation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2), and in particular Article Commission that the levies at present in force should 1 3 (5) thereof ; be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye Article 1 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2076/73 (3) and subsequent amending The import levies to be charged on the products listed Regulations ; in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/ 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, annexed to this Regulation . levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 October on their effective parity ; 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 30 October 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p . 8 . (3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p. 1 .

31 . 10 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 302/5

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

CCT heading Description of goods u. a. / ton No

10.01 A Common wheat and mesiin 0 10.01 B Durum wheat 0 (»)(«) 10.02 Rye 9-51 (e) 10.03 Bailey 10-50 10.04 Oats 2-59 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 12-52 («)(») 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 11-06 10.07 C Grain sorghum 8-14 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals o n 1 1.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour 4-85 11.01 B Rye flour 32-06 1 1.02 A 1 a Durum wheat groats and meal 0 1 1 .02 A 1 b Common wheat groats and meal 5-00

(') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a./metric ton . (') Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into the French Overseas Departments , the levy in reduced by 6 u.a. /metric ton . (') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 u.a. / metric ton . (4) Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a. /metric ton . (•) The imparl levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1234 /71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .